Insolvency Service

A Cheshire builder who left a woman with a gaping hole where her kitchen once stood has been handed a suspended jail sentence. 

A Nottinghamshire construction boss who fraudulently removed more than £700,000 from four failing companies and transferred the money to his casino account has been jailed.  Wesley Grainger-Smith, 66, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday 28

A Yorkshire electrical engineer who continued to manage his businesses while he was disqualified as a company director has been jailed. Leslie Crossland, of Netherfield Croft, Shafton, Barnsley, was sentenced to 16 months in prison when he appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday 21 February.&nbs

A builder who used company funds to pay for his high-performance car and stole almost £90,000 in plant machinery has been given a suspended sentence.  Vasile Hrusca withdrew more than £67,000 from his own failing company in 2019 to pay off the remaining balance on a hire purchase ag

A Bristol builder who overstated the income from his construction companies to secure two Covid Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000 has been handed a suspended sentence. James Leslie, 45, of Upton Lane, Dundry, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for 18 months, when he appeared at

A London-based builder has been disqualified as a company director for ten years after he overstated his company’s turnover to claim the maximum Bounce Back Loan during the pandemic and then failed to show the money had been spent on his business. Marcel Ion, 39, from Bromley, was the sole dir

A Cumbrian businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud, disregarding a director disqualification and breaching a bankruptcy order has been jailed. Adam Kirkbride was sentenced to four years in prison when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday 19 April.

A Shropshire man has been handed a suspended sentence for running a window-fitting company while he was disqualified as a company director. Gary Kelvin Link, 46, from Telford, was given a 10-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months after he was found to have breached the terms of his eight-year

A man from east London must repay £10,000 within one week after falsely applying for a Covid Bounce Back Loan. Adam Lennard, 58, was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 15 months, after appearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday 5 February.

Richard Howson, the former chief executive officer of Carillion Plc until 2017, has been disqualified from acting as a director for eight years.

Richard Adam, who served as group finance director for Carillion plc from 2007 to 2016, has been disqualified for a period of 12.5 years.

The former finance director of construction outsourcing firm Carillion, Zafar Khan, has been disqualified from acting as a company director for the next 11 years due to his role in misrepresenting the firm's financial health and sanctioning unwarranted dividends.

The boss of a now-defunct construction company has been disqualified after he falsely claimed loans for his company that he was not entitled to.

John Gerard McGarvey, 37, from Rutherglen, has been disqualified as a director for 11 years after claiming two separate Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000, and then using the money for personal benefit.

Bosses of a London construction company and a Greater Manchester sports coaching firm have each been banned from running a business for 11 years after abusing Bounce Back Loans. Lavinia-Larisa Mociar, 31, claimed £50,000 to support the Harrow-based construction business of which she was a dire